Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . No. 210. Large Vuse, with the characteristics of a woman. (About 1:5 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) wing-like projections, from each of which issues on either side a spiralornament in relief, resembling, as Professor Sayce observes, the lituusor crooked staff carried by certain figures in the Hittite sculptures ofBoghaz Kioi or Pteria and elsewhere. I remind the reader that the owl-faced, cap-like
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . No. 210. Large Vuse, with the characteristics of a woman. (About 1:5 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) wing-like projections, from each of which issues on either side a spiralornament in relief, resembling, as Professor Sayce observes, the lituusor crooked staff carried by certain figures in the Hittite sculptures ofBoghaz Kioi or Pteria and elsewhere. I remind the reader that the owl-faced, cap-like covers, such as No. 236, belong to this sort of vase. No. 241 is a hand-made light-brown vase, with two breasts on eachside and two projections; it is ornamented with grooves and incised No. 241. Terra-cotta Vase, with incised ornamentation No. 212. Terra-cotta Vase, with two projections in theand female breasts on either side. form of birds heads at the rim. (1: 3 actual size. Depth, 32 ft.) (1: 3 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) No. 242 is also a hand-made vase, with two perforated projections inthe form of birds beaks at the rim. It is now time to explain the curious signs and j-pj, which we have 346 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. seen on the vulva of the lead idol No. 226, and which occurs manyhundreds of times on the whorls and other objects of this third orburnt city, and of the two following pre-historic cities (see, for instance,Nos. 1855, 1858, 1859, 1870, 1873, 1874, 1894, 1919, 1947, 1949, 1982,1988, 1989, 1991, 1999). This sign was evidently brought to Hissarlikby the people of the Third City, for it never occurs on objects from thefirst or second city. I find it in fimile Burnoufs Sanskrit Lexicon underthe denomination svastika, and with the significat
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